A Catholic bishop is hoping that President Rodrigo Duterte would “reconfigure” his war on the illegal drugs that has already claimed thousands of lives. Bishop Pablo Virgilio David of Kalookan diocese said another key thing for Duterte is to learn by listening to drug experts. “Allow experts in various fields to take part in coming up with an in-depth study of the root causes of the illegal drug problem in the country,” he said. While authorities strengthen its intelligence work against drug lords and scalawags in the police, he said the government must also strongly support community-based drug rehabilitation programs….

Cardinal Luis Antonio Tagle speaks during a press conference on the upcoming Philippine Conference on New Evangelization in Manila, July 4, 2017. ROY LAGARDE The head of Manila’s Roman Catholic Church said the flurry of attacks against the spate of drug-related killings has to stop and not just with mere words. Cardinal Luis Antonio Tagle said that to save more lives and address social problems like drug addiction, condemnation alone is not enough. He said the Church must be more “proactive” in dealing with the problem by coming up with concrete actions to protect life. “As we say do not…

An Irish archbishop is sending a warning to voters who would redefine marriage to include same-sex couples by Ryan Fitzgerald • May 5, 2015 ARMAGH, Northern Irelandd, May 5, 2015 (ChurchMilitant.com) – On May 22, the people of Ireland will vote on the world’s first-ever country-wide referendum over redefining civil marriage to include same-sex couples. With recent polls showing 70 percent of the electorate support “gay marriage,” the head of Ireland’s Catholics, Archbishop Eamon Martin of Armagh, is sending a warning to voters — if you legally redefine marriage to include same-sex couples, you defy both faith and reason as well…

SARAH ZAGORSKI MAY 5, 2015 | 3:34PM WASHINGTON, DC In a recent Congressional hearing, blind Chinese activist and attorney Chen Guangcheng said that in the 35-years since China’s brutal one-child policy hundreds of millions of babies have been killed. In 2005, Chen came to prominence after he began to investigate reports of forced abortions and sterilizations in villages in eastern China. Now Chen is a senior fellow at Catholic University of America and said the following at a hearing of the Congressional Executive Commission on China: “Over the past 35 years, China has killed a total of 360…

It was only about 6 months ago when the young and beautiful Brittany Maynard brought new attention to the topic of physician-assisted suicideafter her highly publicized decision to end her own life under the Oregon “Death with Dignity” act. Suddenly, new bills advocating for physician-assisted suicide began cropping up all over the country at the beginning of legislative sessions in January, but what’s interesting is that most of these bills died before they ever made it out of committee or out of the respective state legislature. St. Joseph,…

The Irish flag. Credit: Michael Care Andersen (CC BY-NC 2.0). By Kevin Jones Dublin, Ireland, Apr 26, 2015 / 03:58 pm (CNA/EWTN News).- Opponents of a referendum that would recognize “gay marriage” in Ireland face an uphill fight, but one commentator says they can win if people are willing to speak up and focus on the need for children to have a mother and a father. “I think civil marriage is a really critical institution for upholding the common good – specifically the good of children being raised by their own mother and father in a lifelong committed relationship,” said Ben…

Asia-Pacific subsidiaries of B. Braun through B. Braun Philippines , the company that develops, manufactures, and markets products and services for the medical field, and is one of the world’s leading suppliers to hospitals and healthcare providers, donated a total of P1.2 million pesos for the caring home that was severely damaged by Typhoon Yolanda. B. Braun Philippines signed a memorandum of agreement with Pro-Life Philippines last March 29, 2014 for the project “Project Hayag Kalinga” …

This serves as an Invitation to the National Seminar / Workshop on Anti-human Trafficking & Modern Day Slavery on Feb. 27& 28, 2014 organized by the CBCP Office on Women/ NASSA/ Youth,Migrants/ Culture/& Legal Office at the University of Asia & the Pacific, Ortigas Center, Pasig City. Speakers will be John Klink of the Holy See, VP Jojo Binay, Sec. Leila De Lima,Cecilia Oebando, Debra Rosen, Attys. Gwen Pimentel, Nina Arroyo, Sam Inocencio, Susan Ople & Bishop Pabillo among others. All are exerts on Human Trafficking. This seminar is in partnership with UAP, Visayan Forum Foundation,JPIC Commission of Dominican Sisters of Siena, Association of Major…

by Alex Schadenberg | Brussels, Belgium | LifeNews.com | 8/27/13 4:41 PM A study published in the Journal of Pain and Symptom Management – November 2011 titled: Process and Outcomes of Euthanasia Requests Under the Belgian Act on Euthanasia: A Nationwide Survey found that only 5% of requests for euthanasia in Belgium are refused. The Belgian study on the process and outcomes of euthanasia requests was part of the “Monitoring Quality of End-of-Life Care Study.” The researchers sent an anonymous self-administered questionnaire to 3006 Belgian physicians by mail in March 2009. Euthanasia was legalized in Belgium in 2002. Since some of the…